help needed with X11 cursor and observed behavior

[John Hughes]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:29 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Cursor names used to be done through MD5 sums.  Now they're a great deal
> less insane, but some apps still assume the old system.

Uh, MD5 sums of what?  Is there supposed to be some automatic way of
setting up the old names?

("some apps" seems to be Thunderbird, Firefox, Nautilus... you know,
little used, unimportant stuff).